Estimated World Population to Pass 6,666,666,666 Today

suso writes ""The estimated population of the world will pass 6,666,666,666 today. No doubt an interesting number for people everywhere (not referring to any religion connotations). 5,555,555,555 was passed about 14 years ago. You may not realize that only 80 years ago, the population of the Earth was only around 2 billion. This shows how the population of the world has increased at an alarming rate in recent times, although the growth rate is almost half what it was at its peak in 1963, when it was 2.2%. Unrelated but also an interesting coincidence, the estimated number of available IPv4 addresses is getting very close to 666,666,666. It should cross over today as well.""

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Distortion of God's identity

[burndive]

I care that it is.

As a Christian, I believe that God created man and woman in His image, "male and female".

Therefore, perverting the sexual relationship (which was designed as an attribute of marriage) is disrespectful to God, because it distorts our view of Him ("God is Love"--sex is one of many, but it is one of the more powerful stamps of His character on us), and it is disrespectful to both men and women, because it distorts both of the roles that they were designed to play in marriage (and in sex, as an extension).

Homosexuality is a perversion and a distortion of what God says about His own character.

I have nothing personally against homosexuals, it's just that they insult my God in their ignorance, and that makes me sad.

Homosexuality isn't the only perversion of sex: fornication, adultery, rape, incest, voyeurism (i.e., porn) are all in the same category.

Christians who have a "special" problem with homosexuals that they don't have with fornicators and adulterers are being hypocrites. They distort God's character that they're supposed to be emulating. That makes me sad too.

Re:Distortion of God's identity

[burndive]

Just because something "isn't so bad" compared to other unhealthy and detrimental things doesn't make it a good thing. It may even be "less bad" than those things, but that doesn't make it "good".

Do you think that schools should teach children that abuse of alcohol, smoking, unhealthy diets, and divorce are "good" and "healthy" and "normal" just because they're "not that bad" compared to other bad choices that one could make?

That's my argument. And again, it makes me mad when people try to utilize the school system to undermine what parents are teaching their children about acceptable lifestyle choices.

I probably should have said "psychologically" instead of "mentally", but I'm guessing you would still disagree on much the same grounds.

Re:An update

[XSpud]

I love Slashdot - where else would you be modded insightful for telling a funnier joke?!